Content:

It’s been an amazing adventure. The hero is a prince who has always been in love with the girl of his dreams. Until one day he looked at the girl in the painting and accidentally crossed into a completely strange world. When he woke up and looked around, he miraculously found the girl in the dream, he ran towards her regardless of everything, and wanted to talk to the girl, but found that the girl did not know him, and even thought he was a strange person. When the girl gets up to get her coffee, the prince notices a strange box (mobile phone) making a noise, and after he touches it curiously, he finds himself back in his original world. The girl came back after taking the coffee to find that the boy had already disappeared, instead, the game on the mobile phone showed ’game over‘.

storyboard:

Scene determination:

1. If you want a cartoonish narrative, the model you choose may be cartoonish and concise.
2. The selected character model and scene model need to be consistent
3. Make some modifications to the downloaded model scene
4. The prince will live in a castle setting, while the girls will choose a modern setting

Download scenes – castle and coffee shop:

Here, I changed the original scene, adjusted the position of the throne, modified the standing position of the guards and the decorations behind the throne, and modified the hall of the first floor to a higher floor, so that there will be more space, so that the interior of the castle is very magnificent. At the same time, I took into account the narrative of the story and, therefore, added the blue element representing the color of the country’s flag in this scene. I changed the color of the wall around the throne to blue, which contrasted with the prince in red clothes, and more highlighted the difference between the characters and the characters’ background.

Revamp the existing scene in order to match my story:

In the modern scene, the original model building map shows a huge parking lot outside the shopping mall, which is not consistent with my preset scene, because I want the prince to wake up in a meadow, and I don’t want to quickly reflect the prince through a modern world. Therefore, I modified the map here, changed the open space in front of the supermarket into a green lawn, and generated certain plants randomly through the brush. In this way, when the prince wakes up and looks around, the audience realizes that the prince has gone to another world, so there is a sense of contrast and mystery.

In the modern scene of the cafe, I modified the original layout. Since both the prince and the girl are dressed in red, the use of red floor tiles here would be particularly crowded, so I changed the RGB of the ground map in the blueprint to make the floor show a cool color like blue. At the same time, I changed the seating from a low stool to a high chair, so that the main man and woman could sit side by side and appear in the same shot.

The above is part of the scene modification show, in addition to the prince’s bedroom and other modifications. However, the main scenes and main props have been placed above, which can be well adapted to the production of subsequent animations. After I finished the scene, I began to experiment with camera placement to see what kind of shots and angles would be more appropriate for my animation. Below is a screenshot of my shot attempt.

Setting the shots:

Course Introduction:
This course is designed to teach students how to import TouchDesigner projects into Unreal Engine 5 (UE5), combining the power of both to achieve more complex and efficient visuals. Through this course, students will learn the basic operation of TouchDesigner and UE5, as well as data transfer and synchronization techniques between the two.

In this class, I mainly learned two main knowledge points, the first is the method of importing touchdesigner in ue; The second direction is how to smoothly import motion capture animations into ue5.

Open the plug-in and use the advanced version through the link given by the teacher. This version can smoothly import the touchdesigner file into ue.

Export the touchdesigner file:

Create a random cube and import the touchdesigner video into the cube as a material, so that you can view the touchdesigner file in the file

Part two：

Part two：How to import vicon motion capture files into ue smoothly

Import FBX file: In the Content browser, right-click and select “Import to…” Options.
Navigate to the folder where you saved the FBX file and select the FBX file you want to import.
Import Settings: In the Import dialog, make sure the following options are set correctly:
Skeleton: Select the skeleton that matches the FBX file. If this is the first import, you can select “None” and a new skeleton will be created.
Animation: Make sure the “Import Animations” option is selected.
Mesh: If the imported file contains mesh data, you can also import it.

use ViconFemale_v2 to import Emily:

Import Animation sequence:

do ik rig for Vicon:

Check the skeleton:

Once the import is complete, locate the imported Skeleton in the content browser. Double click to open and check that the bone structure is correct.
Ensure that bone names and hierarchies are consistent with the model.

IK the Mannequins and Vicon:

Edit the Vicon pose and Mannequins, let both of them in the same pose:

Adjust the animation:

Find the imported Animation in the content browser. Double-click to open and check that the animation plays correctly.
The animation editor allows you to adjust the animation speed and loop Settings.

export animation sequence:

This week’s class, I came to the motion capture classroom. The teacher took us step by step to start from scratch, wearing specially made black clothes with anchor points. In front of the green screen, make sure that there are no reflections on anyone in the room, as these reflections will affect the setting of the scene.

Emily trying the Vicon to record some pose:

The teacher taught us how to set up the camera so that every anchor point of the performer could be successfully identified. Because misidentification can distort the final captured action, a lot of time was spent setting up the camera and testing the integrity of the action and the motion capture so that the subsequent imported action could be more smooth.

Set the camera: